BitMEX announced that it had successfully identified and blocked a phishing attack attributed to the Lazarus Group.

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May 30, 2025

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Recently, a BitMEX employee was contacted through LinkedIn for a potential ‘NFT Marketplace’ web3 project collaboration. This pretext was similar enough to other attacks common in this industry that the employee suspected it was an attempt to trick them into running malicious code on their device.

BitMEX thwarted an attack by Lazarus Group, the hacking collective with ties to the North Korean government, according to an announcement on Friday.

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Week 22 of 2025